Anyone else too upset to listen to Blair's resignation speech?

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Lordy, how I remember that fateful day in 1997 when I, and the rest of the teaching staff, were whooping with joy, thinking that a brave new world was about to be opened up to us and the rest of the country.

I can't bear to listen to him now - am too upset and bitter about the whole thing!

So looking forward to Gordon Brown, bringing back good ol' Labour values.......

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Glad he's gone........ but think that Brown will be no better, which brings me to ask......... as a democracy in 1997 Britain voted for Labour mainly because of the charismatic young leader, so what gives the Labour party the right to decide who the prime minister should be?

Surely a general election should be called and the public should decide? Not some back slapping MP's who want to vote for Brown in the hope he gives them some high flying post in the cabinet?

Anyway to lighten the mood a little....... when Tony finally moves out of Downing Street and the news has the usual montage of his life as PM, what sound track would you think would be appropriate?

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Blair has just made us the laughing stock of the world, at least the Conservatives before him gave us a posistion in the word after the debacle of the Callaghan Government.

True, there were strikes, the most notable being the Miners strike, but if certain pits weren't economically viable why should they be subsidised or kept open? Also the "everybody out" culture was inherited from the Callaghan government, who were had over a barrel by the unions. None more so than the so called "Winter of Discontent" in 1978-79 which is when the rubbish was left in the streets. Winter of Discontent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Also the double standards of Blairs regime was amazing.... If a member of the Conservatives had done half the stuff Mandelson, Straw, Prescott etc had done the Labour benches would have been taking portable gallows to the commons to hang them...... but not for Blairs boys... nope just hide then from the public for a few weeks then "hey presto" a new position in the cabinet. I'm not saying the Conservatives were perfect, far from it, but the hypocrisy from labour should have had alarm bells ringing.

Brad mentioned house repossessions under the Conservatives, however with house prices rising at the present and banks throwing money at people to get a mortgage that will happen again soon...... the mathematics just can't hold out for much longer, house prices are rocketing yet wages are only increasing by the rate of inflation or less.

Infact i don't believe Blair had the country in mind when he thought out any of his policies or made any of his decisions, his whole premiership has been a bit like a kid in a sweet shop, stuffing his pockets and hoping he doesn't get found out. The only people he had in mind was himself and Cherie, who must have made an absolute fortune in human rights cases thanks to her husband.

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Infact i don't believe Blair had the country in mind when he thought out any of his policies or made any of his decisions, his whole premiership has been a bit like a kid in a sweet shop, stuffing his pockets and hoping he doesn't get found out. The only people he had in mind was himself and Cherie, who must have made an absolute fortune in human rights cases thanks to her husband.